Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-12
AROUND THE BASES.
An Interesting Amateur Game at Snow
flake Park Yesterday.

An exciting and well-payed game of
baseball took place at Snowflake Park yes
terday afternoon. Mines from the RECORD
UNION and Bee offices were pitted against
each other. A hundred or more spectators
assembled, doubtless for the purpose of
guying the members of both mines, but in
that line they were disappointed, for an
exciting game was played, as the score of 6
to would indicate. 1t was not scrub
game" by any means, and both batteries
held down the batting pretty WELL Eight
errors were made by the Bee experts, while
but four are recorded against the RECORD
UNION nine. All the runs of both sides were
made in the first four innings after which
both teams worked hard TO score, but
failed. About halfdozen double-plavs
were made which kind of silenced the
crowd and gave them to understand that
ball p" was being played. The feature
was the way Humphrey. of the " RECORD
UNION combination" got ratified" He
forgot TO put on the shirt of his baseball
suit, and attributes his bad luck to that
fact The game was umpired by Charles
Robinson, of the Atlas. and not one of his
decisions stood questioning. A marked
feature was the short time in which the
game was played one hour and twenty
five minutes was the exact time, one of the
shortest games ever played in the new
park. The score stood Bee g. RECORD
UNION 4.
BASEBALL NOTES.
Sacramento people are almost forgetting
how baseball is played, so long have they
been deprived of seeing game. There is
no doubt but that some of the Eastern COM
binations now playing at the Bay could be
| induced to come here if some effort were
made. 1t is said that they want $500 to
play here-and they tciH want it.
at Central Park Saturday, the Chicagos
defeated the Philadelphia by score of 8
| toe.
The New York Giants administered a
crushing defeat to the Pioneers last Satur-
! day at the Haight-street grounds, San
Francisco, the score standing IL to 1.
John Clarkson, Chicago's crack pitcher
| for the season of 1887, is bound he will not
play with that club any longer. He says
| he will not play ball at all if the Chicagos
| don't release him to the Boston club. He
will work at his trade if some settlement is
not agreed upon.
The Marysville club will probably play
| here next Sunday. Charles Robinson, late
of the Atlas. is getting together nine to
| compete with Northern California crack
! players and an interesting game may be
anticipated.
Snowflake Park dries up rapidly after a
rain and can, no doubt, be used all winter
for games.
Anderson, of the Atlas, went to Willows
to play one of the championship games o.
Northern California. The purse is $500.
Since baseball has become fascinating tC
| the newspaper men, James Senate, the
well-known restaurant keeper, wants tC
add to the interest. Yesterday, in CONVEX
sation with some of the RECORD UNION
nine he agreed that he would offer pen
nant to the successful ball-tossing combina
tons of the RECORD UNION and Bee. Thu
series to be in and the first game to bt
determined upon by the managers of tht
respective mines. Excitement will now
run high.
The San Jose club, with Mullee in the
box, yesterday defeated the GREENWOOD
Morans, who had Van Haltren as theil
pitcher. The score stood 8 to 5.
At San Francisco yesterday the Chicago
defeated the Philadelphias Is 20 s. and tn,
| New Workers scored 6 to the Haverly'
nothing.